April 2014 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Module maintainers
by Galen Charlton 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi, Marcel had set up a page on the wiki for discussion about the role of module maintainers, which currently can be found at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Talk:What_does_a_module_maintainer_do However, I want to increase the visibility of the discussion that has been taking place regarding the role of module maintainers, so I'm starting a mailing list thread. I encourage folks to start by reading the wiki page, but to give a summary of the discussion both on the page and during the general IRC meeting today, thoughts on a variety of potential parts of the MM's job have been expressed, including: - whether or not MMs push patches to master vs. preparing branches for the RM to pull from - where MMs fit in the QA process - the extent to which MMs actively work on their modules (as opposed to more passively dealing with patches that present themselves) - the degree to which the workflow for MMs should be determined by the RM's preferences (and what happens when the position of RM changes) Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org

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Roles for 3.18; RMaints
by Galen Charlton 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi, The current list of candidates for project roles can be found at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.18 We have candidates for all major project positions with the exception of release maintainers for 3.12.x and 3.10.x. I encourage folks to step up to run for RMaint, particularly for 3.12.x, but we should also discuss what the community support policy for older releases should be. For example, we could choose to support the most recent X stable release branches, or we could decide that we want to support Y years back, although given our release schedule either approach would work out to the same outcome depending on how far back we want to go. We should also consider what "support" means, particularly for the older branches. Several things that could be included in a definition are: - Having a release maintainer actively pushing bugfixes. This is a sine qua non, in my opinion. - General community willingness to respond to questions and bug reports with an answer that goes beyond "please upgrade to the latest stable branch" - Building release tarballs monthly (or maybe less frequently for older branches) - Building Debian packages - Willingness to do security releases Related, the next development meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 23 April 2014, as a two part meeting at 15:00 UTC and 22:00 UTC. Voting on the project roles will be on the agenda for that meeting. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org

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UTF-8 in passowrd ?
by Zeno Tajoli 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi to all, to check UTF-8 support of Koha (bug 11944) http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11944 we find problems with create/update a patron's password if the password uses a Japanese char. It could be a problem of the perl libray Crypt::Eksblowfish. I ask your opinion: Do we want to support full utf-8 in password for patrons ? Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Dr. Zeno Tajoli Dipartimento Gestione delle Informazioni e della Conoscenza z.tajoli(a)cineca.it fax +39 02 2135520 CINECA - Sede operativa di Segrate

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[Koha-devel] http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/What_does_a_module_maintainer_do
by Marcel de Rooy 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi, I added some lines on the wiki about my view of the module maintainer in relation to workflow and QA. Feedback welcome. Thanks, Marcel

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RSS feed for Public Lists
by David Cook 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hi folks: What do people think about providing RSS feeds for Public Lists? One of our librarians mentioned it to me, and I think it's a great idea. The library can curate these lists, and users follow whatever list/feed interests them. Rather than checking on the list periodically, they will get notifications via their feed aggregator. I'm not sure about what format to use though. Originally, I was just thinking of doing standard RSS, but then I took a look at the OPAC and noticed the added bits of 'atom' and 'opensearch', so I thought I would take it to the group. Anyone have ideas about the best way to proceed? I would love if someone with more knowledge of these standards was about to speak to them : ). -David

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Koha Installation problem & YAZ version issue
by Bhavesh Patel 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Dear All, When I execute the command : sh perl-modules-install from the installation document : http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.6_on_Centos_6.2_i386#Install_Cen… It is showing me the error message. ---------------------------------------------------------- CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MI/MIRK/Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.30.tar.gz *** ERROR! ZOOM-Perl requires at least version 4.0.0 of YAZ, but you only have version 3.0.49. Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site] MIRK/Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.30.tar.gz /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK Running make test Make had some problems, won't test Running make install Make had some problems, won't install [root@localhost koha-3.14.04]# ---------------------------------------------------- for that I have also download yaz-4.0.9.tar.gz and install on / but still it's showing the older version. Also one more thing while installing koha [root@localhost /]# cd koha-3.14.04/ [root@localhost koha-3.14.04]# koha bash: koha: command not found [root@localhost koha-3.14.04]# We are using CentOs6.5 - 32-bit Thanks & Regards, *Bhavesh R. Patel * - www.bhaveshpatel.info - www.onlinequizportal.com - www.hindisuvichar.com "Never leave till tomorrow which you can do today" *Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.*

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Fwd: Koha Community Newsletter: March 2014
by Koha Newsletter 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for March 2014 is here: http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-march-2014/ Thanks! Chad Roseburg Joanne Dillon Editors, Koha Community Newsletter

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